Together with our partners, InfraCo Asia, EDF, SolaRiseSys successfully delivered the Kha Laing Microgrid project into commercial operations in January 2021– providing 1,200 people in the rural Kha Laing village of Minhla Township with first-time, 24/7 #AccesstoElectricity.
The Kha Laing Microgrid project is the first mini-grid in Myanmar to be funded without government subsidies, and aims to demonstrate a commercially viable Anchor-Business-Community (ABC) model of rural electrification in Myanmar.
The operating project, comprising a 43kW hybrid solar-diesel microgrid with battery storage components, supplies energy to a telecommunications tower as the primary customer (Anchor), two local community centers (Businesses), and 276 households (Community).
Since the beginning of the Rural Area Electrification Project in Myanmar 2011, we have provided services to 69, 078 households, to 150 BTS as the power services, to 12 mini-grid stations and including the first Grid-Ready systems in Myanmar with our commitment and determined in many regions and states of Myanmar.
